Cathy Lane: The stories we tell.....and are told

For a long time I considered my work to be about the relationship between sound, history and memory, using recorded spoken word and field recordings as my primary materials. However over the last decade or so, I realise that my recent work is all about stories – the stories that families pass on about themselves: what they include and what they forget and the relationship of different family members to those stories; the stories that governments and politicians tell us in order to get us to do their bidding; the lost or hidden stories that no one thought to record and stories of the everyday.

In this presentation I will try and use the frame of story and modes of storytelling in sound to discuss some recent works.